Corset-steel.



PATENTBD MAY 15, 1906.

E. M. JORDAN. CORSET STEEL.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR.15,1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CORSET-STEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906.

Application filed March 15,1905. Serial No. 250,148.

T0 at whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMMAMARION JORDAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corset- Steels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to corset-steels, and has for-its object to provide an extensible steel of this description which will adjust itself to difierent figures.

My invention will be described in detail hereinafter, and the features of novelty will be pointed out in the appended claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face view, with parts in section, of a pair of corsetsteels made according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of same on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3 8 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a fragmentary face view, with parts in section, of another form of my invention.

A represents the main section of one of a pair of corset-steels provided with eyelets A, and A is the main section of the other of said pair of steels provided with studs A adapted to be engaged by the eyelets A when the At its lower end each of the steels A and A is provided with reduced portions B and B, having slots B Hollow secondary sections or sheaths C C, formed as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, are arranged to slide over each of the reduced portions B and B of the main sections A and A and are provided with studs D and D, which project through the slots B The sliding section C is provided with eyelets corresponding to the eyelets A, and the section O has studs corresponding to the studs A hereinbefore mentioned. At the left of Fig. 1 the corset-steel is shown fully extended, while at the right of said said figure the corset steel is shown completely contracted. Thus it will be seen that when the corset is in use the corset-steels will readily and spontaneously adjust themselves to any figure through the medium of the sliding sections O and C. Another advan tage is that the steels will readily bend and slide (one section upon the other) when the wearer bends or stoops.

In the form of my invention shown in Fig. 4 the steel instead of being provided with a slot is formed with a reduced portion a, having an enlarged end a. A section or sheath 1), formed in the same manner as described with relation to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is adapted to slide on this reduced portion a, it being understood that this sheath-section b has one end closed, as at c, to prevent the said section from leaving the reduced portion a. Otherwise this form of my invention may be the same as described with regard to Figs. 1, 2, and 3. The sheath O is comparatively short, as shown, and is double throughout its length to protect the body from injury.

Various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A corset-steel comprising two sections, having limited but free sliding movement lengthwise of each other, the lower one of said sections being hollow or double throughout its length, forming a sheath to receive a portion of the other section, freely movable therein, and fastening devices A secured directly to said sheath and also to the other section of the corset-steel, and adapted to connect said steel with a companion steel.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN LOTKA, JOHN A. KEHLENBEOK. 

